Federal Senior Tax Analyst

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Team Overview
Join TransUnion’s U.S. Federal Tax team and play a key role in supporting a global, publicly traded organization operating across more than 30 countries and territories. This position offers significant exposure to senior leadership, complex tax matters, and strategic initiatives, providing an exceptional opportunity to develop deep expertise in U.S. federal income taxation within a dynamic multinational environment.
As part of TransUnion’s award-winning Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Pune, you will contribute to a high-performing team focused on driving excellence, standardization, and innovation across the tax function. The role offers broad exposure to U.S. federal tax compliance, tax accounting (ASC 740), tax planning, research, and process transformation, while partnering closely with U.S.-based tax professionals to deliver high-quality business outcomes.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

The Federal Senior Tax Analyst will support U.S. federal income tax compliance, tax accounting, tax planning, and operational tax processes while partnering closely with the U.S.-based Federal Tax team. This role is expected to drive quality, consistency, and efficiency in tax deliverables while contributing to the continued evolution of TransUnion's Global Capability Centre model.

- Support the federal income tax return by preparing calculations such as book vs tax computations and performing first level federal income tax returns reviews

- Assist with tracking tax depreciation and amortization calculations for fixed assets, intangibles, and internally developed software

- Assist with quarterly ASC 740 income tax accounting activities, including tax provision calculations, deferred tax rollforwards, tax expense reconciliations, and uncertain tax position analyses (FIN 48)
- Prepare federal tax payments and assist with entering the payments into the TU’s banking system
- Perform tax account reconciliations and prepare supporting journal entries to ensure accuracy of tax-related financial reporting

- Prepare and support filing of Form 720 Excise Tax Returns and other federal tax-related compliance obligations
- Support the federal R&D tax credit calculation

- Assist in resolving tax notices
- Collaborate regularly with U.S. Federal Tax team members to meet monthly, quarterly, and annual compliance and reporting deadlines
- Contribute to GCC Center of Excellence (CoE) initiatives by standardizing processes and workpapers, maintaining delivery calendars, identifying and escalating exceptions, and enhancing controls and documentation.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and increased utilization of tax technology tools to improve efficiency, scalability and accuracy.

Work Location & Schedule

- This role is based in Pune, India and follows TransUnion's hybrid work model, with regular in-office collaboration as required.
- Given the close partnership with the U.S.-based Federal Tax team, the role requires regular overlap with U.S. Central Time working hours to support meetings, collaboration, and critical tax deadlines.

Required Knowledge And Experiences

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting is a must.
- Chartered Accountant/ CPA with exposure to U.S. Federal Income Tax.
- 4-6 years of experience in U.S. federal income tax compliance within a Big Four accounting firm, multinational corporation, or comparable professional services environment.
- Strong understanding of U.S. federal income tax concepts, including book-to-tax differences, taxable income calculations, and federal return compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of ASC 740 income tax accounting principles and their application in a corporate environment.
- Experience supporting tax audits, tax notices, and tax authority correspondence.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining high-quality deliverables and meeting deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain technical tax matters clearly to both tax and non-tax stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, IF formulas, SUMIF/SUMIFS, data analysis, and reconciliations.
- Experience working with ERP systems such as PeopleSoft or similar financial systems.
- Experience with tax compliance and tax provision software, including OneSource Tax Provision or similar tax technology platforms.
- Familiarity with tax research databases and tools used to analyze and monitor U.S. tax law developments.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications required for reporting, documentation, and stakeholder communications.

TransUnion Overview:

At TransUnion, we encourage and are committed to creating a real, positive impact and shared sense of purpose within our Workforce for Good , which empowers our people to grow, innovate and contribute to a better future for our communities and customers. We strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver’s seat of their professional development— while having access to help along the way. We recognize that success comes when our associates thrive both professionally and personally; that’s why we prioritize work/life flexibility and offer resources for our teams across the globe to collaborate and drive excellence.

Be a part of our Workforce for Good – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Analyst, Tax